Abstract

The present study gathers reflections on the students' experience with the practice of a theatrical
project in highschool of the Picuí campus, in the Federal Institute of Education, Science and
Technology (IFPB). The term experience must be different, not easy to define, because its
meaning is tied to its context, being modified according to the objectives and times.

In the current study, it is related to the individual's experiences and the way in which he relates
to the environment, with himself, with others and with objects, being able to transform himself
and transform what he relates to, as Dewey (2010) points out. On the other hand, it suggests
alterity, if put in another place or in someone else's position, being allowed to be touched
according to Bondía (2002).

It is considered here the proposal of a poetry slam as a means of engaging the students during
the path of creation that is accomplished from the reading of poems for the construction of a
theatrical composition. This research evidences the importance of the students' experience with
the specifics of a creative process in the theater, but also discusses the issues of theater
teaching from the perspective of the teacher of the Art discipline in the context of the IFPB to act
as a polyvalent teacher of the area, causing various practical difficulties, de-characterizing the
specificities of artistic languages.

These ideas are based on the understanding of the educational field in which the project is
inserted, the concept of experience, together with studies on theater plays and improvisation in
pedagogical practices and the understanding of the creative process in art. The pedagogical
practices of the author as a teacher at this institution were sources of field observation, with
investigations in classroom applications and interviews with students involved in the research
process.

It can be seen that these practices contribute to students' self-knowledge, as well as the
possibility of promoting theater teaching for secondary school students together with possible
reverberations in the institutional environment.

Keywords: Theater Teaching. Experience. Poetry Slam. Creative processes.